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Installation issues / X works, but MCE startup freezes

« on: March 01, 2008, 01:40:33 am »

Another intresting issue... Installation went like charm, and after reboot I got a blank screen. Actually screen went to a power save mode. No worries I thought. I need to check my xorg.conf. But that wasn't a problem. Actually X gets up normally and there are no graphical problems at all. So I dug deeper apparently the system halts on dcerouter login phase. as soon as it gets the console login screen out it puts monitor into sleeping mode. Pushing numbers will only result screen wake up and pushed numbers appear as username. If I stop punching numbers screen dies very shortly after that. There's also a another strange thing just before "no signal" fills my screen. PC-speaker gives 5 fast bleeps: low-high-low-high-low.

KDE desktop shows one icon (Linux Media Center). If I try to start it gives a following error:
Failed to run /usr/pluto/bin/lmce_launch_manager.sh as user root.

Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file.

That one of course can be started from konsole and it starts setting up orbiters. After it has finished full screen house setup wizard kicks in. But of course mouse buttons won't work and no video is displayed when wizard starts. Of course I haven't even seen the AVWizard.

So anyone have any ideas where to go from here?

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Installation issues / Any way to bypass the automatic disk partitioning?

« on: February 27, 2008, 08:06:33 pm »

So I have the "grub error 18" problem. Yes I know I could install the MCE from cd's but I'm keen on the idea that I wouldn't have to set up VDR on my own. So is there any possibility to by pass the automated partition creation and do it by your self (and why EXT2? Why, oh why?)

Secondly. when does the installer decide how big boot section it will use. Just curious because I have successfully installed MCE beta 3 to this particular hardware without any problems (my hd died so I'm right back to where I started). In that case I had older 7.04-based MCE installed and during the installation it asked if I want to use old settings with my new installation. So does it look up some particular files etc. I could just create couple of configuration files and cheat the installer that I have actually older MCE installed on my HD.